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|title=Please Don't Stop the Music

|author=Jane Lovering

|reviewer=Sue Magee

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=304

|publisher=Choc Lit

|date=February 2011

|isbn=978-1906931278

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Jemima Hutton makes jewelled belt buckles and she's determined to make a success of the business – and to keep a dark secret which she's shared with no one. She's camping out in her friend's spare room and another friend is allowing her workshop space. It is ''just'' working until the woman she supplies exclusively decides that she's not going to stock her any more. Jemima is down to walking the streets of York looking for someone who will stock her buckles. She's all but given up when she meets Ben who says that he'll stock the buckles in his guitar shop. But Ben has secrets too – and he's determined that, come what may, he's not going to share them.

They've also got a good record of publishing debut authors and Jane Lovering is in that category. This is a good book but I suspect that there will be better to come from this author as she develops her craft and allows full rein to her glorious sense of humour. She's got a very good plot here and some characters you really warm to. It's a couple of days since I finished the book and I've been ''wondering'' about them, as though they're people that I know. There's a sensitive hand with disabilities and problems; you can understand why people hate them, but they don't diminish the characters in your eyes.

For more of York we can recommend [[Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson]].

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